Estate of Ramsay v. Whitbeck
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the Fourth District; — heard in that court ou appeal from the Circuit Court of Clinton county; the Hon. Samuel L. Dwight, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Cartwright
On November 8, 1892, Rufus N. Ramsay was elected Treasurer of the State, of Illinois for two years from the second Tuesday of January, 1893. On December 20, 1892, he, with ten sureties, executed a bond in the sum of $500,000 to the State of Illinois," conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties as such treasurer. He entered upon the duties of his office January 10, 1893, and died during his term, on November 11, 1894. At that time there should have been in the treasury $1,510,383.14, and an examination showed that there was but $1,031,843.62, leaving a deficit of $478,539.52. This…
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